To maintain the transport function of spleen and stomach, we should pay attention to the following aspects:
(1) Cold and warm
People with chronic gastrointestinal diseases often attack in cold winter or when the weather suddenly turns cold, because it is related to cold stimulation. A part of a person's stomach clings to the abdominal wall, and cold air easily intrudes into the stomach directly, thus reflexively causing contraction of the stomach and blood vessels, dysfunction of gastric movement, spasmodic abdominal pain, bloating, anorexia, nausea and vomiting. Therefore, in the cold season, as well as the seasons with great climate changes such as late autumn and early spring, we should pay attention to cold and warmth. Experienced stomach patients often wear a small belly in front of their stomachs. Although small, it can effectively prevent the stomach from catching cold. People with stomach trouble might as well have a try.
(2) Feel comfortable
Stimulated by bad emotions, the function of cerebral cortex is disordered, and the main nervous system is not well controlled and regulated, which increases the excitability and attack factors (gastric acid and pepsin) of vagus nerve. It can also increase the excitability of sympathetic nerve through the pathway of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, and weaken the defensive factors (resistance of gastric mucosa and local blood flow), thus leading to "self-digestion" of gastric wall and causing gastric diseases. Therefore, patients with stomach diseases should pay attention to emotional adjustment and mental relaxation, especially to prevent long-term depression and anxiety, so as to avoid "qi" hurting the stomach.
(3) eat well.
The stomach is a place for storing food and preliminary digestion. Stomach disease has special requirements on diet to prevent eating from hurting the stomach. Eating hot food, eating fast, eating irregular diet and eating smoked and salted diet can all cause gastric mucosal damage and become the cause of peptic ulcer.
The diet should be light and nutritious, regular and quantitative, eat less and eat more meals, and choose foods with high protein and vitamins, such as milk, beans, lean meat, freshwater fish and fresh vegetables, which are non-irritating to the stomach, can inhibit or neutralize gastric acid and are beneficial to ulcer healing. Avoid cold fruits and vegetables, greasy frying and spicy food, such as onions, peppers, vegetables, cigarettes, wine, potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins. Avoid overeating, hunger varies; The methods of cooking food should be mainly steaming, boiling, stewing, stewing and burning to make food soft and rotten and easy to digest.
What foods can replenish the spleen and stomach?
Nowadays, many young people have a certain degree of gastrointestinal discomfort, so how should we take complementary food in our diet? We asked a nutritionist to explain it to us.
"Sweet into the spleen" means that sweets have the function of nourishing the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine believes that "the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood transformation". If the spleen and stomach function is normal, the qi and blood will be sufficient. Eating sweets can invigorate qi and nourish blood, replenish calories, relieve fatigue and regulate detoxification.
Among the sweet foods mentioned by Chinese medicine, yam and jujube are the first ones. Yam is sweet, warm and non-toxic, which can strengthen spleen and qi, strengthen tendons and bones. Suitable for people with weak body, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, chronic diarrhea and other poor spleen and stomach functions. You can cook rice into porridge, add sugar and steamed yam mud and mix well to make yam porridge. Jujube can tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and promote fluid production, nourish blood and soothe the nerves. There is a folk saying that "eat jujube every day and seek less medical treatment". For women who are prone to anemia and middle-aged and elderly people, jujube has a good nourishing effect. In addition, rice, millet, longan, brown sugar and honey also have the function of strengthening the spleen, so you can choose some according to your own taste.
It should be noted that "the spleen and stomach are afraid of life, cold and nourishment". There are also some cold and sweet foods, such as pears, watermelons and other fruits or desserts such as ice cream. Eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and there are manifestations of spleen and stomach weakness such as stool deformation. Patients with diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases should not eat sweets, because it is too sweet, which is easy to cause excessive spleen and stomach. In the theory of five elements, spleen belongs to soil, and soil water (kidney belongs to water) hurts wood (liver belongs to wood), which will be unfavorable to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.